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Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques - Third Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash
Book Image

Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques - Third Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash

Overview of this book

Moodle, the world's most popular, free open-source Learning Management System (LMS) has released several new features and enhancements in its latest 3.0 release. More and more colleges, universities, and training providers are using Moodle, which has helped revolutionize e-learning with its flexible, reusable platform and components. This book brings together step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions to leverage the full power of Moodle 3 to build highly interactive and engaging courses that run on a wide range of platforms including mobile and cloud. Beginning with developing an effective online course, you will write learning outcomes that align with Bloom's taxonomy and list the kinds of instructional materials that will work given one's goal. You will gradually move on to setting up different types of forums for discussions and incorporating multi-media from cloud-base sources. You will then focus on developing effective timed tests, self-scoring quizzes while organizing the content, building different lessons, and incorporating assessments. Lastly, you will dive into more advanced topics such as creating interactive templates for a full course by focussing on creating each element and create workshops and portfolios which encourage engagement and collaboration
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Moodle 3.x Teaching Techniques Third Edition
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Preface

Getting started - a simple example


The following screenshot shows a very basic instructional Lesson in Moodle. Note that it is essentially a website and it contains text, links, and an embedded graphic. In fact, it is written in HTML.

It is a brief Lesson and so does not have a large number of components. Essentially, the Lesson is introducing a concept (the relationship between distance and perspective). The instruction involves testing the student's knowledge by using a "jump question". If you get it right, you proceed to the next item and, if you get it wrong, you're either taken back to the instructional page or jump to a remedial page. However, the jump question could just as easily ask a student what they are interested in learning next or some other exploratory question.

When the student clicks on the Continue button at the bottom of the Lesson page, they are taken to a question page, as shown next:

Each answer displays different feedback.

If the student answers correctly, they are...